Oh, the editor (Schmidt-Lötzen) mentions it, alright (as in: "to him, Heinrich was the Prince" or "when the author of these writings bursts into tears as the prospect of his beloved Prince Heinrich leaving Berlin for a few days, it is one more sign of a sentimental era"), it's just the reviewers of the 2007 re-edition of the first volume don't.
Something else that occured to me when thinking of the gallery of (known) Heinrich boyfriends: what's missing there is any type of erastes. Whereas Fritz has his sugar daddies as crown prince, complete with double Socrates/Alcibiades present for Mantteufel and Voltaire, and all the Suhm adoration. But while you could argue Heinrich himself played the erastes role in his late life affairs, in his youth he really seems at no point have wanted an older man to show him the ropes, so to speak. Either as a mentor or a lover, let alone both. If Ziebura is right about Marwitz being his first love, he starts with a guy three years older and keeps within his own generation until he hits middle life. Which is interesting in a man whom people, including Ziebura, assume to have had a kink for being dominated by his sex partners.
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Date: 2020-07-14 06:22 am (UTC)Something else that occured to me when thinking of the gallery of (known) Heinrich boyfriends: what's missing there is any type of erastes. Whereas Fritz has his sugar daddies as crown prince, complete with double Socrates/Alcibiades present for Mantteufel and Voltaire, and all the Suhm adoration. But while you could argue Heinrich himself played the erastes role in his late life affairs, in his youth he really seems at no point have wanted an older man to show him the ropes, so to speak. Either as a mentor or a lover, let alone both. If Ziebura is right about Marwitz being his first love, he starts with a guy three years older and keeps within his own generation until he hits middle life. Which is interesting in a man whom people, including Ziebura, assume to have had a kink for being dominated by his sex partners.